Re: [Exim] Exim and separate passwd file

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Szerző: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Címzett: Nico Erfurth
CC: Andi Buechler, exim-users
Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Exim and separate passwd file
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:44:00AM +0100, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> Andi Buechler wrote:
>
> >Yes, your right, I'm just too stupid to get all the abbreviations right.
> >Please replace MTA with MUA in the text above!
> >
> >Andi (quite confused)
>
> One more time, exim is NOT a POP3 or IMAP-Server, it just sends and
> receives mail(via smtp). When YOU want to "download" a message, you're
> using imap or pop3, NOT smtp, so what you want to do is related to your
> pop3 or imap daemon, it's NOT exim related. Got it?


And of course you dont need pam or /etc/passwd for exim to lookup local
users.

You can lsearch / dbsearch your local users from anywhere else that you like
- or use ldap / mysql type stuff.

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